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A minimalist, elongated sculpture made of reflective and shiny bronze. The sculpture is long and slightly curved, suggesting the shape of a bird, and sits atop a stone base that is balanced on top of a geometric wooden base.

Golden Bird, 1919/20 (base c. 1922)

Constantin Brancusi

A work made of stoneware with ox blood (langyao) glaze.

Vase, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

A work made of cotton, machine-made net; appliquéd with plain weave; cut and drawn work filled with buttonhole bars decorated with buttonhole picots and darned points; embroidered in cross, darning, and overcast stitches; decorated with buttonhole wheels.

Fichu with Frilled Outer Edge, 1850/75

A work made of silk embroidery on woven cotton foundation.

Suzani (large embroidered hanging or cover), 19th century

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as the fisherman Fukashichi, actually Kanawa Goro Imakuni (Ryoshi Fukashichi jitsu wa Kanawa Goro Imakuni), c. 1847/52

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

A work made of pewter.

Plates, c. 1892

Jules-Paul Brateau

A work made of painted plaster.

Bust of Pierre François Leonard Fontaine, 1839

Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware with copper luster (maiolica).

Display Plate with the Bust of a Woman, 1500/30

A work made of silk, plain weave with gilt-metal strip supplementary facing wefts with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet.

Fragment, 1601/25

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in long-armed cross and running (pattern darning) stitches.

Border, Arab period (641–969)/Fatimid period (969–1171)/Ayyubid period (1171–1250)/ Mamluk period (1250–1517), 9th/13th century

A work made of silk; lampas technique.

Fragment, Ayyubid Dynasty (1171–1250), 1200/50

Coptic

A work made of linen and wool, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric wefts and supplementary wrapping weft details; edged by plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming uncut loop pile.

Fragment of a Furnishing Textile with Mounted Rider, 4th-5th century

Byzantine

A work made of bronze.

Coin Portraying Emperor Constantius I, 305-306

Ancient Roman

A work made of heavy boards covered with calf, green outside and black inside; on the front and back are onlays of frogskin; inside boards are reinforced with secondary boards in green with gold lettering, with facing leaves of decorated paper simulating frog skin; the spine is black calf with vertical lines in blind stamping; original paper covers bound in.

La science de Dieu ou La création de l'homme (The Science of God, or The Creation of Man), Published 1900; rebound 1930-1942

Mary Reynolds

A work made of paperbound book with photographically embossed cover, hand-sewn with silk in japanese style; original typography in letterpress in green with black; twenty photolithographs of paper collages (some in colors).

La septième face du dé: poëmes-découpages (The Seventh Side of the Die), Paris: Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1936

Marcel Duchamp

A work made of illustrated book with 54 plates.

Les Mains libres: Dessins de Man Ray, illustrés par les poèmes de Paul Éluard (Free Hands: Drawings illustrated by the poems of Paul Éluard), Paris: Éditions J. Bucher, 1937

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

A work made of offset lithograph on single folded sheet.

The Imagery of chess: a group exhibition of paintings, sculpture, newly designed chessman, music, and miscellany, New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1944

Julien Levy Gallery

A work made of enclosed in a brown cloth covered case with reproductions of duchamp's notes, sketches and images on lining papers; case includes small compartment with magnetic closure containing a collotype and stencil facsimile of the "large glass" and large compartment containing the book, with black velvet paper covered compartment cover with a torn silhouette profile of the artist on tan paper; mounted on the front of case is a blue enamel coated metial plaque lettered in white "eau & gaz à tous les estages".

Sur Marcel Duchamp, Paris: Editions Trianon, 1959

Marcel Duchamp

A work made of letterpress poster and exhibition catalog in black and red ink on lightweight paper; folded version.

Dada 1916-1923, New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953

Marcel Duchamp

A work made of letterpress and relief printing on two folded sheets.

Le Coeur à barbe (The Bearded Heart), 1922

Tristan Tzara

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